Davis 6162 Vantage Pro2 Plus Solar Powered Wireless Weather Station w/Solar Radiation & UV

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• Item Weight: 13.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 25 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001IY8IUQ
• Item model number: 6162
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,445 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Professional Weather Station with Solar Radiation & UV Sensors FREE SHIPPING USA & $100+ OFF INTERNATIONAL!* This home weather station is a near scientific quality weather station and is manufactured to a quality standard known as "NIST" traceable. This wireless weather station has a transmission Range up to 1000'. Wireless Repeaters available for Almost Limitless Range! Fastest Updating of Data at 2.5 Seconds! Includes display, Integrated Solar Powered Sensor Suite with Auto-Emptying Rain Bucket, Outdoor Temp and Humidity Sensor, Wind Gauge, and mounting hardware Plus UV & SOLAR RADIATION SENSORS! For remote mounting of Anemometer, a wireless transmission kit is available. (Sold separately for 6162/63 Only.) To operate this unit on AC power, a 220v - 110v power transformer is required for operation in many countries outside of the USA and Canada. Indoor Temperature & Humidity, Barometric Pressure, Tendency & Graph, Dew Point and Wind Chill "Streaming Ticker" with Current Weather Highlights! Over 100 different messages! View current data or highs and lows for up to 24 different days, months, or years. Weather Forecast icons: Sun, Partly Cloudy, Clouds, Rain, or Snow. 8 Moon Phases. Time and date including sunrise/sunset. Umbrella icon appears when it is currently raining. View daily rain, or rain for this storm, or season to date. Graph last 24 hours, days, or months of readings, or highs/lows. View over 80 graphs including additional analysis of temperature, rain, rain rate, wind, and barometric pressure. All without a computer! Storm

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Weather Guru you will be!, January 3, 2012

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James Beddingfield (Houston, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Davis 6162 Vantage Pro2 Plus Solar Powered Wireless Weather Station w/Solar Radiation & UV

I purchased one of these about 5 years ago for my Parents out in the country and it is fantastic! I put it up on a 24-foot iron pole on a hill about 500 feet from their house to get it into a completely open area. The display station inside the house picked-up the signal perfectly.

Amazing amount of data: Rainfall accurate to 1/100th of an inch; Wind direction & speed; temperature; humidity; solar radiation; UV index and more. Data updates rapidly so you can see the changing wind speed and direction in real time. Shows rainfall rate per hour and sometimes here in Texas, that is AMAZING! It forecasts the weather using built-in algorithms very well. I have been amazed at how many times it forecasted rain when it was a hot, dry day and sure 'nough, it rained within 24 hours. It is the Cadillac of weather sensing and information suites!

The only problem is that it has NO contingency for birds sitting on it! This is a real problem. The birds sit on the rim of the rain collector and they 'drop' waste into it which eventually clogs the little hole the rain is supposed to go through to be measured. This stops the accurate rain total until you can get up there and clean the rain bucket out. Also, the birds sit on the weathervane/wind direction sensor and cause it to register incorrectly and have also caused the sensor to change position on the end of the stem it is located on. This causes the wind direction to be displayed incorrectly until you can get up there and reorient the sensor arm in the correct direction. I have asked Davis Instruments on numerous occasions what could be done to prevent this from happening (because it is A ROYAL PAIN to get up on top of the 24-foot pole to clean and adjust the sensor suite) and they have always told me they don't know of anything that can be done.

I purchased a new one of these for my Parents for Christmas this year and I am going to glue some pins/spikes/tacks/? upside down to the top of the rain bucket and weathervane arm to keep the birds from landing on them. This is how they keep birds off of billboards in high-bird areas (look at the billboards around LAX airport). The spike points keep the birds from landing on them. So, I'm going to try that on a small scale. I thought about putting some type of hardware cloth over the sensor suite or around it but that would negatively affect the accuracy of this amazing piece of equipment.

I am going to take the old unit and send it to Davis Instruments for refurbishment and then install it here in the city for me and my neighbors. One suite will drive an unlimited number of the 'display stations' you put inside your house so all my neighbors can participate in the data if they purchase a display station for their own house. I will connect my station to the Internet/Weatherbug so I can see the weather conditions at my house even when I am out of town.